April 19, 2006

Re: SOA, AquaLogic Service Bus and AquaLogic User Interaction

Two new product centers have just opened up on Dev2Dev: the AquaLogic Service Bus product center and the AquaLogic User Interaction product center. We've started off with a couple of articles on each (described below), and a bunch of resources including documentation, corporate white papers, blogs and newsgroups.

I hope this means the start of much more conversation around the topics of SOA and delivering services—something at the core of each of these products.

Regards,

Please register and take part in these upcoming webinars:

How to Manage Business Performance in an SOA: Baking in Business Intelligence
April 19, 2006 - 17:00 GMT, 09:00 PST
The WebLogic Platform™ is application infrastructure that's been tailored for the consumption of business intelligence (BI) services into enterprise Java applications, and the surfacing of BI content through enterprise portals. Learn why the SOA-ready Business Objects BI platform is a prime candidate for such integration.

Quest Performance Management for WebLogic Portal
April 26, 2006 - 17:00 GMT, 09:00 PST
In this webinar we will consider the key elements of WebLogic Portal and discuss some of the challenges with respect to performance. We will introduce you to the Quest Performance Management suite for WebLogic Portal and show how it helps IT teams deliver, manage and control the performance of WebLogic Portal applications.

Distributed Updates Using AquaLogic Data Services Platform
May 03, 2006 - 17:00 GMT, 09:00 PST
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform automates the creation of read and write data services and manages many aspects of the data services layer implementation. This session covers the update framework for data services in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and describes related automation and tooling. The session will show updates from Java as well as .NET applications.

Dev2Dev Days 2006
March 21-May 31: Multiple cities throughout Europe, Asia and North America
BEA's premier technical seminar series is touring the world. Learn about Struts, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, JDO, Beehive and more. Registration is now open.

In the blogs, Wendy Bales continues her look at JSR 170, telling us that the new WebLogic Portal 9.2 beta that I announced earlier now supports JSR 170. Bill Roth tells us Red Hat buying JBoss is a good thing for BEA. He says, "On balance, I think this is a good thing for BEA and for the industry, and it provides further validation of BEA's blended strategy."

Supporting the AquaLogic User Interaction launch, Gerald Kanapathy looks at SSL and the Portal. After exposing the myth that using SSL will drop capacity by a half or two-thirds, Gerald turns to how you can get even more performance from an SSL-enabled portal, including using an external SSL accelerator.

Finally, it seems that April is the month of awards. Henrik Stâhl tells us about a New SPECjbb2005 World Record with JRockit, while Pieter Humphrey describes the Eclipse Awards Judging Process and Details for the recent "Best Commercial Eclipse based Development Tool" award won by BEA Workshop Studio recently described in Carlos Chang's blog.